How to insert or embed an Outlook message in Excel?
Sometimes, you may need to embed an Outlook email message directly into an Excel workbook. While copying and pasting the email content might seem like a quick solution, it often results in disorganized text and a loss of formatting. Instead, embedding the email as an object ensures that its structure and appearance remain intact. Here’s how you can easily insert an Outlook email into an Excel worksheet.
insert or embed an Outlook message in Excel as an objec
insert or embed an Outlook message in Excel as an object
1. Firstly, you need to save an Outlook email which you need to insert into worksheet. Please select the email message in the Mail List in Outlook, then click "File" > "Save As". And in the "Save As" dialog box, specify a folder for saving the email message, enter a name for the email as you need in the "File name" box, keep the "Outlook Message Format - Unicode" option in the S"ave as type" drop-down list, and finally click the "Save" button. See screenshot:
2. Go to the Microsoft Excel workbook and open the worksheet that you will embed the email message in, then click the "Insert "> "Object".
3. In the "Object" dialog box, go to the "Create from file" tab, click the "Browser" button to find and select the email message that you have saved in "Step 1". After selecting the email message and returning to the "Object" dialog box, click the "OK" button. See screenshot:
Then the specified email message is inserted into current worksheet as the following screenshot shown:
Note: In the "Object" dialog box, it is optional to check the "Link to file" option and the "Display as icon" option.
If you check the "Link to file" option in the "Object" dialog box, you will get an email message embedded in current worksheet as below screenshot shown, and the embedded email can be opened with double clicking.
If you check the "Display as icon" option in the "Object" dialog box, you will get an icon embedded in current worksheet as the following screenshot shown, and it also can be opened with double clicking.
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